>>24510831 (OP)for a few years i dated a reasonably well known writer. of course i'm not saying who. through her i met a few other writers at events and so on. probably the best known writers i have actually met were bernadine evaristo and margaret atwood, when they won the booker prize. evaristo clearly just disliked me because i am a white man, atwood was ok but a bit arrogant and really just acted like she didn't want to be there
independent of that, i met a few well known people, like just saying hi, when i worked in a company that in turn had an events management company as a customer, and i was indirectly involved in setting up one or two of their events. main one i remember was china mieville, who was a complete cunt